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be equipped with their own battery banks, and these battery banks had to be large enough to power
a heating and cooling system far more capable than anything needed on Earth.

NASA states that the Apollo missions relied upon batteries and fuel cells to supply all of the power
needs of their various modules, as well as for the Lunar Rovers used on later missions. I am
admittedly a profound skeptic regarding these claims. The Apollo Mission requirements would have
necessitated that the entire Lunar Module, not just the small astronaut living quarters, be
environmentally controlled. The rocket fuels used would boil away if subjected to the intense heat
of the lunar surface, therefore the fuel tanks had to be maintained at a consistent temperature.

Additionally the spacesuits used by the astronauts had to cool and heat them in an environment of
the same temperature extremes. The spacesuits needed power for numerous things, including their
oxygen delivery system, and the water circulation pumps used to cool the astronauts. All this had to
be powered by battery. One characteristic of batteries of all types is that they are sensitive to
temperature variations, for they depend upon chemical reactions in order to work. If a battery gets
too hot or too cold it can be greatly degraded in its ability to supply power, or worse, it could explode
or catch fire.

Battery technology in the 1960s was not what it is today. I do not believe NASA had the technology
to send men out into space for 8-12 days at a time, running all of their power intensive systems off
of batteries and fuel cells. The weight of the batteries required to run these systems for the extensive
times involved would have been prohibitive.

Related to the subject of spacesuits, some surprising comments were made by Michael Wargo,
NASA’s chief lunar scientist for Exploration Systems in a November 2009 article posted to the
Space.com website. While commenting on establishing a lunar base, Wargo stated the following.

“None of our spacesuits that we currently have would be appropriate for that extreme an
environment.” Any materials built for Earth-like temperatures won't work on the moon. “They don't
bend anymore, they fracture, and they fracture brittle-y, and so everything gets extremely brittle at
those temperatures,” Wargo said.
[Source: http://www.space.com/7532-water-discovery-fuels-hope-colonize-moon.html]

So what material did the Apollo astronauts use? They appeared to be quite flexible and mobile, and